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SEND-UUCP(8)


NAME

  send-uucp - Send Usenet articles via UUCP


SYNOPSIS

  send-uucp [SITE ...]


DESCRIPTION

  The send-uucp program processes batch files written by innd(8) to send
  Usenet articles to UUCP sites.  It reads a configuration file to control
  how it behaves with various sites.  Normally, it's run periodically out of
  cron to put together batches and send them to remote UUCP sites.


OPTIONS

  Any arguments provided to the program are interpreted as a list of sites
  specfied in send-uucp.cf for which batches should be generated.  If no
  arguments are supplied then batches will be generated for all sites listed
  in that configuration file.


CONFIGURATION

  The sites to which articles are to be sent must be configured in the
  configuration file send-uucp.cf.  Each site is specified with a line of the
  form:

      site[:host] [compressor [maxsize [batchtime]]]

  site
      The news site name being configured.  This must match a site name from
      newsfeeds(5).

  host
      The UUCP host name to which batches should be sent for this site.	 If
      omitted, the news site name will be used as the UUCP host name.

  compressor
      The compression method to use for batches.  This should be one of
      compress, gzip or none.  Arguments for the compression command may be
      specified by using "_" instead of spaces. For example, "gzip_-9".	 The
      default value is "compress".

  maxsize
      The maximum size of a single batch before compression.  The default
      value is 500,000 bytes.

  batchtime
      A comma separated list of hours during which batches should be
      generated for a given site.  When send-uucp runs, a site will only be
      processed if the current hour matches one of the hours in batchtime.
      The default is no limitation on when to generate batches.

  Fields are seperated by spaces and only the site name needs to be
  specified, with defaults being used for unspecified values.  If the first
  character on a line is a "#" then the rest of the line is ignored.


EXAMPLE

  Here is an example send-uucp.cf configuration file:

      zoetermeer      gzip	      1048576	      5,18,22
      hoofddorp	      gzip	      1048576	      5,18,22
      pa3ebv	      gzip	      1048576	      5,18,22
      drinkel	      gzip	      1048576	      5,6,18,20,22,0,2
      manhole	      compress	      1048576	      5,18,22
      owl	      compress	      1048576
      able

  This defines seven UUCP sites.  The first four use gzip compression and the
  last three use compress.  The first six use a batch size of 1MB, and the
  last site (able) uses the default of 500,000 bytes.  The zoetermeer,
  hoofddorp, pa3ebv, and manhole sites will only have batches generated for
  them during the hours of 05:00, 18:00, and 22:00, and the drinkel site will
  only have batches generated during those hours and 20:00, 00:00, and 02:00.
  There are no restrictions on when batches will be generated for owl or
  able.


FILES

  pathetc/send-uucp.cf
      Configuration file specifying a list of sites to be processed.


NOTES

  The usual flags used for a UUCP feed in the newsfeeds file are "Tf,Wfb".


SEE ALSO

  innd(8), newsfeeds(5), uucp(8)


AUTHOR

  This program was originally written by Edvard Tuinder <ed@elm.net> and then
  maintained and extended by Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>.
  Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> cleaned up the code for inclusion in INN.	This
  manual page was written by Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>.

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